Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday apologized publicly for the social network’s misuse of its members’ data and said lawmakers that his own personal data was included in that of 87 million or so Facebook users that was improperly shared with political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.Congressman presses Zuckerberg on Facebook’s poor diversity record. In today’s hearing before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-NC) decided to take the opportunity to press Mark Zuckerberg on the subject of racial diversity in Silicon Valley that tens of millions of users as he faced a day of reckoning before a Congress mulling regulation of the global social media giant.

Mr. Zuckerberg, faced tough questions before the congress over how a "U.S.-British political research firm", Cambridge Analytica, steals the detailed personal data on 87 million users to be used in the 2016 U.S. presidential election?

Facebook also became one of the platform for choice for a stunning Russian campaign of online misinformation that U.S. intelligence says was designed to tilt the 2016 vote toward Donald Trump.!

Reply from Mr. Zuckerberg

“It was my mistake, and I’m sorry,” Mr. Zuckerberg said in prepared testimony. “I started Facebook, I run it, and I'm responsible for what happens here.”

“It’s clear now that we didn’t do enough to prevent these tools from being used for harm,” he said. “That goes for fake news, foreign interference in elections, and hate speech, as well as developers and data privacy.”

Mr. Zuckerberg called Facebook “an idealistic and optimistic company” and said, “We focused on all the good that connecting people can bring.”

Mr. Zuckerberg vowed to “hire thousands of more people” to get the new system in place ahead of U.S. midterm elections in November, starting the process in the U.S. and taking it global in the coming months.

Zuckerberg deflected requests to support specific legislation. Pressed repeatedly by Democratic Senator Ed Markey to endorse a proposed law that would require companies to get people’s permission before sharing personal information, Zuckerberg agreed to further talks.

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